Stress Point

Stress Point: Thriving Through Your Twenties in a Decade of Drama

A woman’s twenties can be confusing, crazy and overwhelming, and we yearn to know how to handle these years. I had the opportunity to review the book Stress Point by Sarah Francis Martin through Booksneeze®, and found it to deliver an in depth “how-to” on surviving the decade and finding your permanent place in Christ as situations, emotions and relationships are constantly shifting. Chapters break down according to different stress points women in their twenties experience, and Martin places interactive journaling pages throughout the chapters, focusing on the issues at hand and how to place them at the feet of our King.

                The book presented a nice layout and order, and focused on a lot of issues I could relate to, but there were also a few chapters that did not apply to me, at least in my life right now. I really liked the journaling portions, as they were helpful to bring my focus back to God, yet at times I felt like the scenarios she presented and asked which related best to me did not fall into my exact situations, and that I was often a little bit of multiple scenarios when she asked which one sounded like me. The layout is presented in a modern look that grabs the attention of today’s twenty-something, and the main focus of the book is how to find one’s fit not in each situation, but in Christ and how He will work through you and the situation you’re faced with. While it doesn’t necessarily solve all the problems of young women, or propose new and unique ways to look at the issues, it is a good book to help get back to placing the focus on God and how to anchor on Him through this changing and confusing decade.

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